The Courts

Watchdog groups say the White House’s new executive order that invokes the Defense Production Act to keep meat processing plants open during the COVID-19 public health emergency prioritizes corporations over employee safety and effectively takes away the ability for workers to sue if they contract the disease at work.

The Supreme Court will not suspend the so-called public charge rule during the coronavirus pandemic, but it left open the possibility for opponents of the rule to ask lower-court judges to temporarily halt the rule.

The hospital lobby and CMS will face off next month in the first court battle over the agency’s price transparency rule -- but both sides will make their arguments virtually during a hearing conducted via videoconference.

The Trump administration told the Supreme Court on Monday (April 20) that the so-called public charge rule should remain in effect during the coronavirus pandemic, despite concerns of some state and local officials who say the rule is deterring immigrants from getting tested or treated for the virus.

The Supreme Court case on the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate will be argued via teleconference on May 6, the court announced.

The latest battle over the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate will be argued at the Supreme Court next month via teleconference, with a live audio feed available to the public -- an unprecedented move for the nation’s highest court as it adapts to social-distancing requirements during the coronavirus pandemic.

A federal judge on Friday (April 10) threw out part of a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump and his top health officials violated the Constitution by enacting policies that undermine the Affordable Care Act.

Democratic attorneys general are asking HHS to put a new rule that requires plans to bill non-Hyde abortion services separately on ice while stakeholders deal with the ongoing pandemic.

The Supreme Court on Friday (April 3) postponed oral arguments in two major health care cases, one involving states’ attempts to regulate pharmacy benefit managers and the other involving the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate.